Beginnings

We all know the stories of how creative people get into the business of creating for a living, but how did they start using their imaginations in the first place? On the Beginnings podcast, writer and performer Andy Beckerman asks well-known and up-and-coming comedians, musicians, writers and artists about their earliest creative acts and about other formative childhood experiences.

On today's show I talk to artist Nate Hill.
Originally from Florida, Nate moved to New York to perform art in a
city that would be receptive to his works. And Nate's works are
pretty amazing. Coming out of the same public performance tradition
that gave birth to artists like Joey Skaggs and even some of the
early...

Very glad to have this week's guest on the show, comics writer
Ales Kot.
Originally from Ostrava in the Czech Republic, Ales was born during
The Cold War, and grew up after the Iron Curtain fell. After moving
to the US, he pitched some comics ideas to Image at a convention,
pitches which eventually became the series...

On today's show I talk
to writer Chris
Kelly. Chris
is one of the most driven guys I know. He started off writing on
house sketch teams at UCB and working at The Onion, and from there
he's worked as the head writer on Matt Besser's Comedy Central
special This Show
Will Get you High, he was a staff writer at
Funny or...

On today's show, I talk to musician Will Cullen
Hart. Will grew up all over the US, but it was living in
Louisiana that truly made him who he is, because that's where he
met Bill Doss, Jeff Mangum and Robert Schneider and formed the
Elephant Six Recording Company, as well as The Olivia Tremor
Control with Doss. It's not...

On today's episode I talk to guitarist and composer Arto Lindsay. Born in America, Arto
grew up in Brazil while the Tropicalia movement was in full swing,
and moved back to the states to attend college. Eventually moving
to New York, Arto formed the important no wave band DNA in the
1970s, and since then has been part...

About the Podcast

We all know the stories of how creative people get into the business of creating for a living, but how did they start using their imaginations in the first place? On the Beginnings podcast, writer and performer Andy Beckerman asks well-known and on-their-way-up comedians, musicians, writers, artists and thinkers about their earliest creative acts, their formative childhood experiences, and how they've developed both creatively and emotionally over the years. Beginnings is part therapy, part philosophy and almost all fascinating (95% according to FDA studies).